The wife of a station owner in Queensland (and later proprietor of a girls' school in Toowoomba), Harriott Barlow also 'worked with local people to make one of the first language studies of the region, and she sent it to London, where it was published in the leading anthropological journal' (Anna Johnston, '"That’s white fellow’s talk you know, missis": Wordlists, songs, and knowledge production on the colonial Australian frontier').
